Carmel Police Chief Tim Green says 263 new gun permit applications were filed in the first five weeks of this year, compared with 67 applications in the same period last year.

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Across Indiana, gun permit applications are being submitted in record numbers - a telling measure of how Hoosiers are responding to the national discussion about gun violence and gun legislation:

The Indiana State Police reported that in the wake of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., and the ensuing and increasing calls for tougher restrictions on guns - a sentiment echoed in President Barack Obama's recent State of the Union address - the agency is seeing up to 4,000 permit requests each week. That is triple the numbers seen last year by the State Police, ...